Ⅵ. A) Read the passage and choose the best answers. 阅读短文,选择最佳答案。
Have you heard of Oliver Twist or Peter Pan? These are just some of the characters that have been created by British (英国的) writers.
Probably the most 1 British writer was William Shakespeare. In the late 1500s and early 1600s, Shakespeare wrote plays that became famous all over the world. They are 2 still very popular today, such as Twelfth Night and King Lear.
British people love reading stories. Early stories were often printed (刊登) a chapter (章节) at a time in a newspaper, 3 people would have to get the newspaper every week to read the whole story. One of the most famous 4 works, Oliver Twist, was written by Charles Dickens at that time.
There are many children's books by British writers. Maybe you have 5 some of them. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the 6 novel Treasure Island. J. M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan and Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
There are so many famous characters in British plays, novels and poetry. What other characters do you know?
() 1. A. interesting
B. famous
C. humorous
() 2. A. even
B. hardly
C. never
() 3. A. but
B. because
C. so
() 4. A. literary
B. musical
C. historical
() 5. A. thought of
B. heard from
C. heard of
() 6. A. mystery
B. adventure
C. detective
B) Read again and answer the questions. 再读,回答问题。
7. Why did people have to buy newspapers every week to read early stories?

8. What does this passage mainly tell us?

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7. Because early stories were often printed a chapter at a time in a newspaper.
8. Famous British writers and their classic works.